A string is a sequence of characters that can include letters, numbers, special characters, and arithmetic values. Strings can be created with single or double quotation marks. Functions like strlen(), str_word_count(), strrev(), strpos(), and str_replace() allow you to manipulate strings by getting the length, counting words, reversing text, searching for text, and replacing text within strings. Escape sequences with backslashes can be used to represent special characters within strings.
A string is a sequence of characters that can include letters, numbers, special characters, and arithmetic values. Strings can be created with single or double quotation marks. Functions like strlen(), str_word_count(), strrev(), strpos(), and str_replace() allow you to manipulate strings by getting the length, counting words, reversing text, searching for text, and replacing text within strings. Escape sequences with backslashes can be used to represent special characters within strings.
What is String A string is a sequence of letters, numbers, special characters and arithmetic values or combination of all. The simplest way to create a string is to enclose the string literal (i.e. string characters) in single quotation marks ('), like this: 1
$my_string = 'Hello World';
You can also use double quotation marks (").
However, single and double quotation marks work in different ways.
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The escape-sequence replacements are • \n is replaced by the newline character • \r is replaced by the carriage-return 2 character • \t is replaced by the tab character • \$ is replaced by the dollar sign itself ($) • \" is replaced by a single double-quote (") • \\ is replaced by a single backslash (\)
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Get The Length of a String The strlen() function is used to calculate the number of characters inside a string. It 3 also includes the blank spaces inside the string.
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Count The Number of Words in a String The str_word_count() function 4 counts the number of words in a string.
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Reverse a String The strrev() function reverses a string.
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Search For a Specific Text Within a String The strpos() function searches for a specific text within a string. 6 If a match is found, the function returns the character position of the first match. If no match is found, it will return FALSE.
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Replace Text Within a String The str_replace() function replaces some characters with some other characters 7 in a string.